From the article: Late For Work Excuses
Employees come up with many interesting, amusing excuses for being late for work. What is the best, most amusing excuse you have heard? Best One You've Heard?
the army
- The Army have exercises in the morning and they blocked the only exit from the complex area
- —Guest julialukman
I got stabbed
- He had been stabbed the night before and had bandages on his head... I sent him home on sick leave.
- —Laundryguy
Drank Gas
- I coundn't come in I drank gas. He moonlighted as a cabbie and had stopped to help siphon gas for someone. Other than this a good worker!
- —Laundryguy
Grandmother Died
- Everyone knows that a death in the family is serious business. One of my employees called 5 hours into his shift to tell me that his grandmother died. I pulled the employee file to add the note in his records and noticed that his grandmother had died 4 times already. I am a sympathetic person, but there are limits to my sympathy.
- —Guest Chris Candler
Dried Underwear
- This was what I heard at my office, I will be late cuz last night there was a storm and I could not get my underwear to dry!!! Seriously Man how far can people go!!!
- —Guest jolen
Health Center Coordinator
- The storm knocked out my power and the alarm did not go off.
- —Guest Lashonda
Now I heard it all...
- A woman in my office came in late because her son woke up with a loose tooth missing and she had to stay home till he pooped so she could find it.
- —Guest jacsis@aol.com
Tired
- I was too tired to come in on time, so I decided to sleep in and rest up to be more productive.
- —morrir3
electrical problem
- An employee called in saying her elcctric garage door opener wouldn't work because of a blown fuse and she had to wait for her husband to come manually raise the door.
- —Guest kim.henderson
Arrested...
- My wife's brother got arrested on our front lawn, and we were fighting whose fault it was.
- —Guest Lilla
that sick?
- I had to go to the doctor because I have triple pneumonia. (And, were those his exact words??)
- —grrrrr48
Skirting the point
- Upon enquiring why a young lady, whom I knew lived a short distance away, did not arrive on time she informed me that having a pencil skirt on, she could not walk quickly and so arrived late.
- —Guest Bemused
Seriously?
- I had a gentleman call in because he had to go and search for his wedding ring, which he thought he had dropped on a gravel road the night before while hunting. A needle in a haystack, or a ring in the gravel, take your pick!!
- —Guest MN
Martial arguement who should stay home
- Young lady told me that she and her spouse argued whose turn it was to stay home when their son woke up sick that morning!!
- —Guest unbelieving
tires phone
- This one didn't show up until afternoon...he'd suddenly realized that the tread on his tires was low and "too dangerous to drive on", so he went tire shopping instead of coming to work. On a separate occasion, the same guy had to take time off to shop for a new phone because he'd dropped his in the toilet that AM and he couldn't live a minute without a cellphone. He's no longer with us.
- —Guest Laura
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